Workshop Program
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Metadata Management in Grid and P2P systems (MMGPS) -
Models, Services and Architectures

16th December 2003
Senate House, University of London (location 9 in this map)

 
8.45 - 9.15 Registration
9.15 Welcome, George Loizou (Birkbeck), SeLeNe Coordinator
9.30 - 10.45 Session I Metadata Management in Grid systems
Chair: George Samaras (University of Cyprus)
   
  1. Gavin McCance (CERN)
    "Metadata Management in the EU DataGrid"
  2. Savas Parastatidis (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne)
    "Working with Grid Service and Resource Metadata using Existing Tools and Specifications"
  3. Mario Cannataro (University 'Magna Græcia' of Catanzaro, Italy)
    "Architecture, Metadata and Ontologies in the Knowledge Grid"
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.30 Session II Metadata Management in P2P systems
Chair: George Loizou (Birkbeck)
   
  1. Henrik Nottelmann (University Duisburg-Essen)
    "Probabilistic logics for defining and using P2P service descriptions"
  2. Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (EPFL Distributed Information Systems Laboratory)
    "The Chatty Web approach for Global Semantic Agreements"
  3. Wolfgang Nejdl (KBS/L3S)
    "Data-Centric Networks and Peer-to-Peer Databases"
12.30 - 1.50 Lunch
1.50 - 3.30 Session III Applications I
Chair: Nicolas Spyratos (LRI, University de Paris-Sud)
   
  1. Tamas Hauer (CERN)
    "The Role of MetaData in Querying Grid-Resident Medical Images"
  2. Bob Bentley (UCL) or a colleague
    "Management of metadata for the virtual solar observatory. Experiences from EGSO."
  3. Theo Dimitrakos (CCLRC)
    "Meta-data management issues underpinning emerging solutions for distributed trust and contract management and enforcement in enterprise Grid and P2P systems. Experiences from GRASP, SWAD-Europe and CORAS projects"
  4. Stavros Christodoulakis or Nektarios Moumoutzis (MUSIC/TUC)
    "Multimedia Metadata Management and t-learning Applications"
3.30 - 4.00 Coffee
4.00 - 5.40 Session IV Applications II
Chair: Alex Poulovassilis, Birkbeck
   
  1. Klaus Jantke (DFKI)
    "DaMiT - peculiartities of an e-learning system"
  2. Vassilis Christophides (ICS-FORTH) and Kevin Keenoy (Birkbeck)
    "Personalisation in Self e-Learning Networks"
  3. David Massart and Frans Van Assche (European Schoolnet)
    "Metadata Management in the Celebrate European Learning Network"
  4. Zoltan Miklos (Vienna University of Economics)
    "ELENA: Creating a Smart Space for Learning"
5.40-6.00 Closing Session and Conclusions

 

SeLeNe Deliverable 7: Report on the IST Workshop on Metadata Management in GRID and P2P Systems